Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-18

forty to sixty bushels. Wheat, very little
sown, but yield per acre good. Potatoes,
both sweet and Irish, yield equal to any
county in the state. Peaches, grapes,
plums and apricots do well
Assessed value, S2,4e2, 265. No rail-
roads in the county. Cattle, 45 900 head;
sheep, 1900; hogs, %, 600. Population
in county, 5000; Llano town, 700. Bank
J ing facilities, Moore, Foster & Co.; CAPT
tai in business, $4,000; responsible for
100000. Twenty business houses;
aggregate amount OF business
per annun, 100000 Amount
of freight received by them in 1856,
= 100000 pounds by wagon at 30 cents
per 100 pounds. Railroad freights shout
! three times the above amount. No bust
ness failures. Wool raised, 1000
pounds. Cattle shipped, between 5000
and 10, 600 Mineral resources, iron ore IN
vast quantities and OF good quality.
Granite Of fac quality. Soapstore,
manganese, photographic stone, marble,
! coal, silver, copper and traces Of gold.
/ Large sums Of money are now being in
vested in developing iron and coal.
among the best Watered counties in the
state. oar county has steadily improved
for the past i've years. Valuation IL
1876, S950,000; 1881, Sl,75j,000; 1856,
! 81, 4G2, 255. Great Gemand fer lumber.
Nearest railroad point, Bugnet Distance,
thirty-tive miles
| We have excellent water power on the
LlNno river, Colorado river, Honey and
Falls creeks. There is g num9er OF men
in our county from abroad zone OF whom
is practical geologisD prospecting IRON
and coal. About $500 acreS have been
secured up TO date. June ., 1856. This
company propose, should developments
justify, expanding several million dollars
II plant ar LIano town. We have 8
large mica and gypsum.
MCULLOCH COUNTY.
Acreage, G87,337 Rich, loan, red,
sandy soil; 458, 225 acres susceptible OF
cultivation more than the acreage Of
corn, cotton and small gram. Assessed
values, 1,420,5 No railroad
passes through any portion OF
the county. Cattle, %, 892; sheep, ST.
800; horses, GIL. Population Of com
", 5000. We have no baaka3 Wards
Murray, at San Saba, is the nearesa.
Sixteen business houses; amount OF basSsss
ness per year, $lG0, 900 Freight5 re
ceived at Brady, Camp San Sabs, VEGA
and WaldIip, l.3l0, 600 pounds. Railroad
IISI-u.c pdilj CJOtO 10, HESOu IISISusSi
S5372.l No failures in business houses.
Wool raised, 406, $50 pounds. Cattle
shipped, 1000 head. Coal Of q superior
quality, yielding so per cent. coke, (San
Antonio Gas Works test, is found in TWO
mines on the Colorado river in this
county, and the geological formation
indicates the greater portion to be in the
coal measures. IrOu, manganese, kaoliD,
ter ~ f.lo az ole
found The coal is being developed.
The county is well wateTei. l. has
improved very much ag the following
SHOWS:
ISIS. .......S IA So Population 1870
1881 ...... 5SS,45 Population 100
| 1856 l,42',5ss Population 300
| About 400, coo feet of lumber used per
year. Coleman or Santa Anna esp near
est railroad points. Distance 80 miles
a railroad running through this county
east and west would fad & natural road
BED and plenty of water.
SAN SABA COUNTY.
Acreage 600 900. The farming lands
vary from q rich, red loan in the Colo
RADIO bottom, to black WaXy and chocolate
prsirie lands mixed with red sand, and is
very productive. Three hundred thous-
and acres are susceptible of cultivation
and raises fine cotton, corn, wheat, oats,
barley, sorghum, millet, etc. There is
still open 10 buyers nearly 100000 acres
of valley lands. This soil raised last year,
although the severest drouth ever known,
over half bale cotton TO the acre. Fruit
does well.
Assessed vslues, S, 147,2j2 No railrc ad
passes through any portion of our coun-
tY. Cattle A 900 head; sheep, 100000;
cattle, 8000 horses, 5000. Popu-
lation OF county, 200; San Saba
J town, 1850. One bank, Ward & Murray
capital, 500, 000 responsibility, $3.50,
600; deposits average daily S63, 600 and
gradually increasing. Forty-three bust.
! ness houses doing business of nearly
S60e, 1000 per annum, of these eleven &C.
cupy two-storY rock buildings. Amount
of freight received, !. S32,S05 pounds
this does not include lumber or thirty
three carloads of grain since July, 1886
Railroad freight, 81 ,+72; wagon freight,
81. 400. No business failures since ISL
5 Wool raised 900 pounds
Cattle shipped yearly, 5000 head
sheep, $4,000; horses, 20OO, There
is now q new enquiry for hogs
Iron ore in the southwestern portion o1
the county IN very large quantities. Coal
i | - lahCu Out VI every well uuS 6uu runs
in veins from two inches TO several fee
thick Granite, marble, copper and Ieac
also abound. The Colorado river is the
: County's northeastern boundary, and the
San Saba river runs through the center
with the Cherokee, Rlchland, Wallow ant
Rough creeks, besides several springs
In 1876, our tax roll was S655,627 1881
$685. ~; 1856, S3,l&7,5 SOP, and our pop
5 ulation has increased proportionately
Lumber used per annum, 10000 feet
Lsrretts and Goldwaithe nearest railroad
, points; distance about twenty-eigh
miles.
There is but half of our valley lands ye'
, occupied aud the balance within the pas
six months have been cut up so as TO lei
, small farmers purchase same. There i:
now quite an emigration turned this way,
! snd since the fine seasons of 1887, whica
) virtusllY ends the drouth, will be largely
I increased. The town OF San Saba has
good substantial public buildings, con-
: sisting of courthouse costing S35 900
. jail, $4,000; school house, $500; four
. churches, three hotels, -four mill of 10t
. barrels capacity and another suggested
/ ice factory Of 1900 pounds per day, water
works for irrigating purposes. There ar
p fifteen rock buildings used for stores, O.
which three are Cry goods, two drug
I stores, one hardware, two s.ddlery, fiv
a grocery stores, one bank, one public hall